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Use

Use the Business Enablement Provisioning (BEP) functionality in component IW_BEP to handle the events and actions activated in the SAP system and to publish these events and actions through SAP Gateway.

If your system is based on SAP NetWeaver 7.40 or higher, the functionality of IW_BEP is contained in the core SAP Gateway component SAP_GWFND, which is installed as standard.

The BEP functionality enables you to:

  • Obtain and publish Business Object Repository (BOR) events without writing code. For example events raised as a result of changes in a business object: because of changes in a sales inventory, an event is raised and published to SAP Gateway.

  • Obtain and send events for SAP Business Workflow, for example, an event is raised for a workflow user decision step.

  • Obtain and send events from your code, for example, events raised as a result of implemented customer code, such as BAdI implementations.

This documentation contains the following:

Note

In this section of the documentation the information provided refers to IW_BEP with regard to Generic Channel.

Prerequisites

The Business Enablement Provisioning (IW_BEP) component is available in the installation package for SAP Gateway. For more information, see Installing SAP Gateway Components.

Make sure that you have administrator rights in the SAP system.

Target Audience

The target audience of this documentation is the following:

  • SAP administrators, who configure the component in an SAP system to publish and announce events, as well as establish connection to the SAP Gateway landscape; without writing code.

  • ABAP developers, who call the Business Enablement Provisioning Application Programming Interface (API) in their code.

Implementation Guide (IMG)

The customizing activities for Business Enablement Provisioning are integrated in the central SAP Reference IMG: In transaction SPRO open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP Gateway Service Enablement Next navigation step Backend OData Channel Next navigation step Backend Enablement and Event Provisioning Administration End of the navigation path. The relevant activities for connecting to SAP Gateway which are the same for Backend Enablement and Event Provisioning and OData Channel are available under Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP Gateway Service Enablement Next navigation step Backend OData Channel Next navigation step Connection Settings to SAP Gateway End of the navigation path.

For more information see Business Enablement Provisioning (IW_BEP) Configuration and Connection Settings for OData Channel and BEP.